Author: splicer

Dif­fi­cult, painful race today. I did four miles that includ­ed a very steep hill on Ver­mont Street. It seemed like I’d nev­er catch my breath, but I plowed through and fin­ished aston­ish­ing­ly in 36:20. My goal had been a nine-minute mile pace but I gave that up pret­ty quick­ly after I felt how much my calves were hurt­ing. To come so close to my goal when I was afraid I was­n’t going to fin­ish at all is … Read the rest

I picked a new route this morn­ing, and mea­sured it with the help of Yahoo Maps, so I hope they have accu­rate dis­tances. Accord­ing to them if I run up Twin Peaks and back down from my apart­ment it’s 3.1 miles.

IF, on the oth­er hand, I run back down the oth­er side of Twin Peaks and down Mar­ket Street, it looks like an even five miles. And that’s what I did. 5.0 miles in 51… Read the rest

They don’t always cap­ture me in the most flat­ter­ing of poses…

… but at least this time I was­n’t check­ing my blog.… Read the rest

10.5 miles in 1:38:33. That’s a 9:23 pace for my longest-ever-yet run.

I start­ed out with my reg­u­lar 4.4 miles out to the start of Chris­sy Field and back, and added a jaunt to the end of the munic­i­pal pier. Then I was feel­ing pret­ty good so I decid­ed to see how far down the Embar­cadero I could go to add a lit­tle more dis­tance. Bing the big dumb … Read the rest

I got out there for the Cable Car Chase after basi­cal­ly neglect­ing my train­ing for a month. I don’t real­ly rec­om­mend tak­ing a month off, but I learned some­thing about over­train­ing, I think. I’ve done some swim­ming and gone to one run train­ing ses­sion in the last month, and I’ve been to the gym a cou­ple of times, but basi­cal­ly have not run at all since I did Run Hit Won­der last month.

I was going to be very pleased to … Read the rest

Cable Car Chase is TODAY! I have to be there at 6:30 to pick up my race num­ber because I did­n’t get it yes­ter­day or the day before. So here I am at 6am. The sun has­n’t come up and I’m putting on sun­block. LOL.

http://www.anacablecarchase.com/2004/

5.67 miles, but with some fair­ly steep hill work. Yay for San Fran­cis­co! I’ll be very hap­py if I fin­ish in under an hour, but that’s a … Read the rest

Where do you fall on the lib­er­al — con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal spec­trum? (Unit­ed States)
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Just remem­ber that by San Fran­cis­co-Berke­ley stan­dards, I’m a right-wing fas­cist. OK, maybe just a mod­er­ate fas­cist. But cer­tain­ly far enough to the right of cen­ter in SF pol­i­tics to gen­er­al­ly avoid telling any of my close friends who I vote for.… Read the rest

I have draw­ing bris­tol in 11“×14″ inch sheets.

Why do I need a 42″ draw­ing table?

I mean, even if I actu­al­ly ever used it, that is.

Wail—Mighty Pur­ple… Read the rest

One house­mate took a mat­tress from the garage that belongs to the land­lord. Now the land­lord says no bicy­cles in the garage. Or box­es, or any­thing. Great.

House­mate claims that the oth­er house­mates said it was OK and is defen­sive, claim­ing land­lord is try­ing to cre­ate dra­ma to have con­trol. Hel­lo? Jus­ti­fy­ing a wrong action with the overreaction?

I real­ly real­ly don’t like my bikes being out­side. It’s not a good way to store bicycles.

The land­lord is also say­ing … Read the rest